The Modern Allegory Of City,Object And People

Kai-Chueng Dong’s novels "Natural History Trilogy" series are not only extremely important works in Kai-Chueng Dong’s creative career,but also a concentrated embodiment of Kai-Chueng Dong’s novel experiments and creative ideas.In this novel,Kai-Chueng Dong incarnates the "dictator" of the imaginary world,and uses a unique modern fable to reveal the three-dimensional relationship between people,objects and cities in modern society.Kai-Chueng Dong’s urban writing is undoubtedly based on the special historical and cultural context of Hong Kong.He observed the embarrassment of Hong Kong’s gradual loss of self-identity and cultural identity in the "colonial narrative",and also noticed the "local consciousness".After awakening,Hong Kong writers have constructed the cultural identity of Hong Kong people with a series of literary works,and actively made efforts to speak for the city.Under the special cultural background of Hong Kong,Kai-Chueng Dong started his own urban writing with Hong Kong as the prototype,and endowed the city with complex attributes.At the same time,he transformed the time and space of V City with the mutated view of space and multiple time views,and finally constructed the "V City",a city where reality and reality coexist.Kai-Chueng Dong revealed the essence of the city’s "artificial object".He believed that the city is not only a huge man-made object,but also an interactive space between objects and people.He presents the interactive relationship between objects and cities and between objects and people with bizarre fables.At the same time,Kai-Chueng Dong pointed out the infinite proliferation of things in modern cities and the double infiltration of people’s spiritual and physical realms.Kai-Chueng Dong used "character world" and "character law" to show the cruelty of materialization,thus sharply criticizing capitalism the materialization of people by the production system.Finally,in the relationship between his parents and things,Kai-Chueng Dong discovered the private usage of things",that is,pouring people’s emotions and life experience into things and regenerating them.He tried to use the"private usage of things" to complete the anti-materialization.Purpose and subversion of the established logic of capitalist consumer culture.Kai-Chueng Dong also issued a cry for the re-emergence of the humanistic spirit in the "Natural History Trilogy".In his novels,he sets up different metaphors of "people"(righteous and twisted people)to show the differences in the living conditions of modern people,especially the morbid "distorted people" to reflect the alienation and distortion of urban people by the capitalist system.And through the "Baby Universe" and "Immortal Well" to explore the possibility of "rebirth" of modern people,that is,to start a new life experience.In the end,Kai-Chueng Dong pinned his hopes on young people,and demonstrated the importance of "thinking" and "action" as a means of defending individual values in breaking through the predicament of survival through what they think and do.